Tamil Nadu vs Karnataka, Final at Mumbai, Mar 08 2015, Ranji Trophy

RESULT
Final, Wankhede, March 08 - 12, 2015, Ranji Trophy
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134 & 411

Karnataka won by an innings and 217 runs

Player Of The Match
, KNTKA
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karun-nair
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Comms: Deivarayan Muthu
Scorecard summary
Tamil Nadu 134/10(62.4 overs)
1st INNINGS
5/34 (15.4)
Karnataka 762/10(231.2 overs)
1st INNINGS
328 (560)
188 (320)
3/183 (53.2)
Tamil Nadu 411/9(107.5 overs)
2nd INNINGS
120 (112)
4/126 (25)
103 (164)
2/43 (21)

And that's all she wrote for this Ranji season. The joust for supremacy between the neighbors turned out to be a no contest with Karnataka thumping Tamil Nadu to launch a successful defence. This makes Karnataka the undisputed second-most successful team after Mumbai in the history of the Ranji Trophy. Many thanks for your company and comments. Amol Karhadkar's report will up pretty soon. Until next time, this is Deivarayan Muthu saying cheerio on the behalf of Gopi Rangarajan.

As our feedbacker, Nandeesh, puts it: "Invincible Karnataka"

Vinay collects the Ranji Trophy from Anurag Thakur. The Karnataka players now get together and pose for the photographers. They unleash a collective, primeval roar in delight.

Vinay Kumar, Karnataka captain: It is a big moment for us. I would like to thank all the players, they have worked hard to achieve this milestone. I am very happy with my own performance. Ultimately, winning the Ranji Trophy is important. We won the toss and wanted to play with four seamers. As I said last year, we have a good bunch of players. If we keep performing we will dominate the Indian domestic circuit. Next we will play the Irani Trophy and will try to win that.

Mukund collects the runner-up trophy. This is followed by the Karnataka players collecting their individual trophies.

Karun Nair, Man of the Match: I think the credit should go to the entire team. Rahul also batted really well with me. Our partnership was the game-changer. It was just the hunger and I got settled. It was a good batting surface with a little bit of bounce.

Abhinav Mukund, Tamil Nadu captain: I think we really did well in the first day. We could have batted better, but its history now. KL Rahul and Karun Nair took the game away from us. It has been a great season. After a poor start we have made to the finals. We will go back to the drawing board. We have competed well, I made around 800 runs. I could have carried on, but we ran into a good side.

Good camaraderie between the players as they exchange handshakes. What a performance from Karnataka. A humongous innings win in the final to cap off another dominant season. TN put up a fight with DK and Shankar raising centuries but Karnataka were always winning this one after Karun Nair's record-breaking triple propelled them to a 628-run first-innings lead. Do stick around for the presentation.

Sharath: I got injured last year. This year I got a chance and did very well. Everybody did well.

Aravind: It has been a wonderful season for me. It has been a great comeback for me. Credit goes to the whole bunch. My favorite wicket was Prasanna's . I set him up and made him drive.

Manish: I wanted to have a stump as a memory.

Gopal: I am trying to do a bit of both. I don't have a stump but I have a bail. There is a lot of work to do on my fitness.

J Arunkumar, Karnataka batting coach: We have really worked hard this season. Shreyas is a batsman as well as a bowler.

Mansur Ali Khan, Karnataka bowling coach: We shared the responsibilities. It makes things easier

Bhavane: They never made me feel like a debutant. KL Rahul is my role model. I love the way Karun approaches the game. I love the attitude of Vinay.

Karun : It feels good. Having had a poor season in terms of numbers, I have made up for it. I tried to get as much as I can. I am happy with whatever I got.

Uthappa: The celebrations will be on and we will celebrate more after the Irani trophy.

Rahul: Not everyday does a team win five titles in a row. We will take a break, turn up for Irani and win the sixth in a row. All the boys are willing to put in the effort day in and day out. It is just amazing to see what a team together can do. We don't want to stop here. We want to continue for the next four to five years

Vinay: All credit to the boys. I am not going for forget this game. Someone told me I am the first captain to take five wickets and score a hundred [in a Ranji final]. I am very proud of it.

Mithun: It has been a good season for me, We have been doing well. We wanted to win the trophy.

107.5
W
Aravind to Malolan, OUT

Karnataka retain the Ranji trophy! Its all over for Tamil Nadu. Delirious scenes in the Karnataka camp. Parameswaran is injured and will not bat. This was a full ball moving away from batsman, he looks to guide it away and pokes it out to Manish Pandey at wide slip. Vinay races across and plucks out a stump as a souvenir. Pandey also wants it, looks to snatch it away from Vinay. But the captain has the final say

Malolan Rangarajan c Pandey b Aravind 33 (77b 6x4 0x6 72m) SR: 42.85
107.4
4
Aravind to Malolan, FOUR runs

banged in short and on the stumps, homing in below the chest, Rangarajan swivels on the back foot and pulls it fine

107.3
Aravind to Malolan, no run

back of a length and angled in from round the stumps, defended back to the bowler off an inside-edge as he does not get hold of the punch

107.2
Aravind to Malolan, no run

good length ball on off, defended to the off side, adjacent to the pitch

107.1
Aravind to Malolan, no run

fuller and on off, he seeks to flick. The ball goes through midwicket off the inside half of the bat

end of over 1076 runs
TN: 407/8CRR: 3.80 
Malolan Rangarajan29 (72b 5x4)
Lakshmipathy Balaji5 (16b 1x4)
Shreyas Gopal 25-4-126-4
Sreenath Aravind 21-6-48-1
106.6
1
Gopal to Malolan, 1 run

Rangarajan fetches this from outside off and sweeps it backward of square leg

106.5
Gopal to Malolan, no run

flat and on off, he goes for a sweep, manages an edge that drops to the right of Gopal

106.4
1
Gopal to Balaji, 1 run

tossed up on off, sliced past the silly point fielder

106.3
Gopal to Balaji, no run

slid through on middle, punched to mid-on off the back foot

Vinay now has a chat with Gopal..

106.2
Gopal to Balaji, no run

flat and darted on off, squirted behind point

106.1
4
Gopal to Balaji, FOUR runs

flat and on middle and leg, Bala bends down and sweeps it in front of square, beats the diving fielder as well

Slip, silly point, short leg, short cover.

end of over 1064 runs
TN: 401/8CRR: 3.78 
Malolan Rangarajan28 (70b 5x4)
Lakshmipathy Balaji0 (12b)
Sreenath Aravind 21-6-48-1
Shreyas Gopal 24-4-120-4
105.6
4
Aravind to Malolan, FOUR runs

darted onto the pads again, he succeeds in flicking it behind square this time. The fielder just escorts the ball to the fence to keep Bala on strike

105.5
Aravind to Malolan, no run

full and on the pads, he misses the flick

105.4
Aravind to Malolan, no run

fullish and leaves Rangarajan, who pokes and misses as he is beaten. Uthappa goes up for a caught behind appeal that amounts to nothing

105.3
Aravind to Malolan, no run

full and outside off, left alone

105.2
Aravind to Malolan, no run

good length ball on off, dead-batted onto the pitch

105.1
Aravind to Malolan, no run

back of a length and outside off, cut away to extra cover, straight to the fielder

Aravind...

end of over 1051 run
TN: 397/8CRR: 3.78 
Lakshmipathy Balaji0 (12b)
Malolan Rangarajan24 (64b 4x4)
Shreyas Gopal 24-4-120-4
Vinay Kumar 21-8-43-2
104.6
Gopal to Balaji, no run

pitched outside leg, Bala just pads it away

104.5
Gopal to Balaji, no run

flat from round the stumps, kept out

104.4
1
Gopal to Malolan, 1 run

googly, turned to mid-on

Match details
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
TossKarnataka, elected to field first
Series
Season2014/15
Player Of The Match
Series resultKarnataka won the 2014/15 Ranji Trophy
Hours of play (local time)09.30 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 16.30
Match days8,9,10,11,12 March 2015 - day (5-day match)
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Ranji Trophy

Group A
TEAMMWLDPTQuotient
KNTKA8404331.633
TN8413291.244
MUM8224200.937
MP8116191.143
BRODA8125181.078
RLYS8026160.922
UP8233150.760
BENG8017130.820
J + K8134120.601
Group B
TEAMMWLDPTQuotient
DELHI8512371.471
MAHA8323261.290
VIDAR8215241.468
GUJ8224240.965
ODSA8332200.790
PNJB8233190.947
RAJ8233180.821
HRYNA8242170.875
SAU8134100.668
Group C
TEAMMWLDPTQuotient
ASSAM8512381.325
AP8413291.454
HP8206281.677
JHK8215211.171
HYD8116201.123
KER8116200.908
TPURA803590.635
SVCS804480.773
GOA803550.575